June 9

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June 9 is the 160th day of the year (161st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 205 days remaining until the end of the year.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

68 - Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging.
721 - Odo of Aquitaine defeats the Moors in the Battle of Toulouse.
1310 - Duccio's Maestà Altarpiece, a seminal artwork of the early Italian Renaissance, is unveiled and installed in the Siena Cathedral in Siena, Italy.
1534 - Jacques Cartier is the first European to discover the St. Lawrence River.
1650 - The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. It is the first legal corporation in the Americas.
1667 - The Raid on the Medway by the Dutch fleet begins. It lasts for five days and results in a decisive victory by the Dutch over the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1732 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
1772 - The British ship Gaspee is burned off the coast of Rhode Island.
1790 - The Philadelphia Spelling Book by John Barry becomes the first book to be copyrighted in the United States.
1815 - End of the Congress of Vienna: New European political situation is set.
1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Brandy Station, Virginia.
1909 - Alice Huyler Ramsey, a 22-year-old housewife and mother from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the first woman to drive across the United States. With three female companions, none of whom could drive a car, in fifty-nine days she drove a Maxwell automobile the 3,800 miles from Manhattan, New York, to San Francisco, California.
1915 - U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigns over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania.
1922 - First ringing of the Harkness Memorial Chime at Yale University.
1923 - Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup.
1928 - Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross.
1930 - Chicago Tribune reporter Jake Lingle is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by the Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 USD gambling debt owed to Al Capone.
1934 - Donald Duck makes his debut in The Wise Little Hen.
1935 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
1944 - World War II: the Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
1946 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej ascends to the throne of Thailand. He is currently the world's longest reigning monarch.
1953 - Flint-Worcester tornado outbreak sequence: a tornado spawned from the same storm system as the Flint tornado hits in Worcester, Massachusetts killing 94.
1954 - McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army - giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
1957 - First ascent of Broad Peak (the world's 12th highest mountain).
1958 - HM Queen Elizabeth II officially opens London Gatwick Airport, (LGW), Crawley, West Sussex, United Kingdom.
1959 - The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
1967 - Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria during the Six-Day War.
1968 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
1973 - Secretariat wins the Triple Crown.
1974 - Diplomatic relations between Portugal and the Soviet Union are established.
1978 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy excluding black men.
1985 - Thomas Sutherland is kidnapped in Lebanon (he is not released until 1991).
1986 - The Rogers Commission releases its report on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
1991 - The congress of the Italian party Proletarian Democracy decides to merge with the Communist Refoundation Party.
1999 - Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.

Births

1508 - Primož Trubar, Slovenian Protestant reformer (d. 1586)
1580 - Daniel Heinsius, Flemish scholar (d. 1655)
1588 - Johann Andreas Herbst, German composer (d. 1666)
1595 - King Wladislaus IV of Poland (d. 1648)
1640 - Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1705)
1661 - Tsar Feodor III of Russia (d. 1682)
1672 - Tsar Peter I of Russia (d. 1725)
1686 - Andrei Osterman, Russian statesman (d. 1747)
1768 - Samuel Slater, American industrialist (d. 1835)
1781 - George Stephenson, English mechanical engineer (d.1848)
1810 - Otto Nicolai, German composer (d. 1849)
1812 - Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer (d. 1910)
1843 - Bertha von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1914)
1845 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (d. 1914)
1849 - Michael Peter Ancher, Danish painter (d. 1927)
1851 - Charles Joseph Bonaparte, French politician (d. 1921)
1865 - Albéric Magnard, French composer (d. 1914)
1865 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (d. 1931)
1875 - Henry Hallett Dale, English scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1968)
1882 - Bobby Kerr, Canadian sprinter (d. 1963)
1890 - Leslie Banks, British actor (d. 1952)
1891 - Cole Porter, American composer and lyricist (d. 1964)
1893 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (d. 1963)
1898 - Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (d. 1952)
1900 - Fred Waring, American bandleader (d. 1984)
1911 - George Webb, British actor (d. 1998)
1912 - Ingolf Dahl, American composer (d. 1970)
1915 - Les Paul, American guitarist
1916 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
1921 - Arthur Hertzberg, American Jewish scholar (d. 2006)
1922 - John Gillespie Magee, Jr., American poet and aviator (d. 1941)
1922 - Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist - Radio and TV animator (d. 1988)
1922 - George Axelrod, American screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director (d. 2003)
1925 - Keith Laumer, science fiction writer (d. 1993)
1929 - Johnny Ace, American singer (d. 1954)
1930 - Barbara, French singer (d. 1997)
1931 - Jackie Mason, American comedian
1931 - Joe Santos, American actor
1931 - Bill Virdon, American baseball player and manager
1934 - Jackie Wilson, American singer (d. 1984)
1936 - Mick O'Dwyer, Gaelic footballer and manager
1937 - Harald Rosenthal, German biologist
1938 - Charles Wuorinen, American composer
1939 - Ileana Cotrubaş, Romanian soprano
1939 - David Hobbs, English race car driver and personality on American TV
1939 - Dick Vitale, American sportscaster
1939 - Charles Webb, author
1941 - Jon Lord, organist in Deep Purple
1943 - Joe Haldeman, science fiction writer
1945 - Luis Ocaña, Spanish cyclist (d. 1994)
1945 - Nike Wagner, German woman of the theater
1947 - Kiran Bedi, Indian Police Service Officer
1947 - John Gurda, American historian
1948 - Gudrun Schyman, Swedish politician
1951 - Dave Parker, American baseball player
1951 - James Newton Howard, American film composer
1952 - Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer (d. 2004)
1954 - George Pérez, American comic book artist
1954 - Gregory Maguire, American fantasy writer
1956 - Patricia Cornwell, American author
1959 - Christian Wulff, German politician, currently prime minister of Lower Saxony.
1960 - Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist
1961 - Michael J. Fox, Canadian-born actor
1961 - Aaron Sorkin, American writer
1963 - Johnny Depp, American actor
1963 - Gilad Atzmon, Israeli jazz musician and author
1963 - David Koepp, American screenwriter and director
1964 - Gloria Reuben, Canadian actress
1964 - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Japanese actress and singer
1968 - Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper
1969 - Eric Wynalda, American footballer
1971 - Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer
1971 - John McKeown, Scottish musician (Yummy Fur, 1990s)
1971 - Rick Renstrom, American guitarist
1972 - Tomoe Hanba, Japanese voice actress
1973 - Tedy Bruschi, American football player
1973 - Laura Ponte, Spanish model and royal
1973 - Frederic Choffat, Swiss film director
1974 - Samoth, Norwegian guitarist (Emperor, Zyklon)
1974 - Tim Shaw, British radio personality
1974 - Randy Winn, American baseball player
1975 - Andrew Symonds, Australian cricketer
1975 - Otto Addo, Ghanaian footballer
1975 - Jeff Saturday, American football player
1977 - Roopa Mishra, Indian civil servant
1977 - Amisha Patel, Indian actress
1977 - Peja Stojakovic, Serbian basketball player
1978 - Shandi Finnessey, game hostess
1978 - Matthew Bellamy, British musician (Muse)
1978 - Miroslav Klose, German footballer
1978 - Michaela Conlin, American actress
1979 - Andrew Walker, Canadian actor
1980 - Mike Fontenot, American baseball player
1980 - Lehlohonolo Seema, Lesotho footballer
1980 - Udonis Haslem, American basketball player
1981 - Natalie Portman, Israeli-born actress
1981 - Vic Zhou, JVKV band member, Taiwanese actor, singer and model.
1981 - Anoushka Shankar, Famous sitarist and daughter of Ravi Shankar
1982 - Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer
1983 - Alektra Blue, American porn star
1983 - Danny Richar, Dominican baseball player
1984 - Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player
1984 - Kaleth Morales, Colombian singer and songwriter (d. 2005)
1984 - Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer
1984 - Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer
1985 - Sonam Kapoor, Indian actress
1985 - Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player
1986 - Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor
1986 - Kary Ng, Hong Kong singer and actress
1988 - Mae Whitman, American Actress
1993 - Danielle Chuchran, American actress

Deaths

62 - Claudia Octavia, wife of Nero (b. 40)
68 - Nero, Roman Emperor (b. 37)
373 - Ephrem the Syrian, Christian hymnodist
597 - St. Columba, Christian missionary (b. 521)
630 - King Shahrbaraz of Persia
1361 - Philippe de Vitry, French composer (b. 1291)
1563 - William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, English statesman (b. 1506)
1572 - Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre (b. 1528)
1583 - Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
1656 - Thomas Tomkins, Welsh composer (b. 1572)
1716 - Banda Bahadur, Sikh military commander (executed)
1717 - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, French mystic (b. 1648)
1834 - William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society (b. 1761)
1870 - Charles Dickens, English author (b. 1812)
1875 - Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist (b. 1795)
1892 - Taiso Yoshitoshi, Woodblock print artist
1892 - William Grant Stairs, Canadian explorer (b. 1863)
1912 - Ion Luca Caragiale, Romanian writter (b. 1852)
1946 - Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII, king of Thailand (b. 1925)
1952 - Adolf Busch, German composer (b. 1891)
1958 - Robert Donat, English actor (b. 1905)
1959 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1876)
1961 - Camille Guérin, French scientist (b. 1872)
1964 - Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, Canadian-born business tycoon and politician (b. 1879)
1973 - Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1974 - Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
1979 - Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1884)
1981 - Allen Ludden, TV game show host (b. 1917)
1989 - George Wells Beadle, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1903)
1989 - Rashid Behbudov, Azerbaijani singer and actor (b. 1915)
1991 - Claudio Arrau, Chilean-born pianist (b. 1903)
1993 - Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
1994 - Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903)
1997 - Stanley Knowles, Canadian politician (b. 1908)
2000 - Jacob Lawrence, American painter (b. 1917)
2004 - Rosey Brown, American football player (b. 1932)
2006 - Drafi Deutscher, German Schlager singer (b. 1946)
2007 - Frankie Abernathy, Former The Real World: San Diego castmate (b. 1981)
2008 - Algis Budrys, American writer (b. 1931)

Holidays and observances

Australia Queens' Birthday Holiday
Roman Empire paganism - third day of the Vestalia in honor of the goddess Vesta

Catholicism

Saint Columba (called Saint Columcille and Saint Colm, pronounced as KUHL-uhm) in Ireland, where he is honoured as one of the islands three patron saints)
Saint Diomedes
Saint Edmund, bishop of Canterbury, confessor (Translation day)
Saint Efrem (Saint Ephraim), deacon, Doctor of the Church
Saint Liborius, bishop (of LeMans), confessor
Saint Primus and Felicianus, martyrs [common]
Saint Pelagia, virgin, martyr